stip wrote:interesting comment from Johnson on the writing process:
J.J. and Larry [Kasdan] and Michael [Arndt] set everybody up in a really evocative way in VII and started them on a trajectory. I guess I saw it as the job of this middle chapter to challenge all of those characters—let’s see what happens if we knock the stool out from under them … I started by writing the names of each of the characters and thinking, What’s the hardest thing they could be faced with?
I didn't find it that interesting in the sense that it basically mirrors empire and really any second movie of a trilogy
Though it all did excite me and I'm loving the photos and the color schemes of it all.
I agree. I'm really hoping it turns out to be true
Mad easy just to have him be disgusted and not worth it. Meaning the Jedi way. and throw it all down and leave walking off into the sunset.
Would also be a way not to kill him.
How exactly is a Disney kids cartoon going to kill its main characters?
Answer? They won't. They'll just send them off into the sunset
stip wrote:so apparently benicio del toro's character is modeled on Tom Waits!
Apparently there's a theory his character is older Ezra
That theory got laughed at and poopood for the longest time.
But with Rebels ending in sight and them being unwilling to share BdTs character name it's not outside the realms of possibility now
Didn't that Vanity Fair article say that he's not named in the script but that he's called DJ? If it wasn't that article it was something else I read the other day. And Rian, when asked why he's called DJ, said that it would make sense once you see the movie.
Vanity Fair’s latest report on The Last Jedi reveals 5 things that are in the movie and 5 things that are not. The things that are in the movie have already been discussed in the main coverage from yesterday, however the 5 things that are not in the movie give away some really interesting details and can probably give hard times to some fan theories.
From Vanity Fair:
Five things that are not in The Last Jedi
A big, central-to-the-plot romance. For all the fan-fiction fantasies of “Reylo” (an imagined union of Daisy Ridley’s Rey and Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren) or “Stormpilot” (the same, for John Boyega’s ex-stormtrooper Finn and Oscar Isaac’s pilot Poe Dameron), Johnson says that The Last Jedi offers “no one-to-one equivalent of the Han-to-Leia, burning, unrequited love. In our story, that’s not a centerpiece.”
A major creature character. Though, as mentioned above, The Last Jedi is rife with creatures, Johnson says there is no major non-human character akin to Maz Kanata in The Force Awakens or Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back. “Most of the creatures are peripheral characters, but they’re throughout the entire film,” he says.
New music from Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Force Awakens included the galactic-dub tour de force “Jabba Flow,” co-written and performed by Abrams and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, but The Last Jedi’s music was written entirely by John Williams, the franchise’s composer since the beginning. Johnson had considered enlisting his cousin, Nathan Johnson, who composed the music for all three of Rian’s prior films, to write some incidental cues. “But,” he says, “I was delighted to learn that John was actually keen to do those.”
Explicit political allegory. Though the vocabulary of Star Wars is threaded into our popular and political discourse—witness Steve Bannon saying “Darkness is good” and name-checking Darth Vader, and the popularity of “RESISTANCE” as a hashtag—Johnson isn’t keen to draw parallels between his story and current events. “To me,” he says, “the power is greatly diminished if suddenly you have a character stand up in front of the Imperial Senate who has orange hair and is saying, ‘Let’s make the galaxy great again.’ It just cheapens it all and divides the audience. What actually matters, and what these films can actually speak to, are the fundamental building blocks of what makes people good, what makes people brave, what are the things we should be fighting for.”
A revelation about Finn’s potential Force sensitivity. Boyega is intrigued that Finn, a civilian, got to wield a lightsaber in The Force Awakens. “He kind of held his own for a bit against Kylo Ren, who’s obviously kind of like a Sith,” he says. “It’s strange to know that Finn stood tall for that long.” Boyega is fluent enough in Star Wars mythology to know that non-Sith and non-Jedi rarely get to use lightsabers, and that when Han Solo did, in The Empire Strikes Back, it was only to slash open the belly of his recently deceased tauntaun so that the freezing Luke could be revived by the animal’s body heat.
In The Last Jedi, Boyega says, Finn’s reasonable facility with the saber is not further explicated. “But you never know,” he says. “I talk to Mark Hamill sometimes and he tells me stories about how he wasn’t told about the ‘Darth Vader is his father’ situation until he got on set. I feel like there must be something going on, something that makes me go, ‘Huh, why does he wield one, and what’s that all about?’ It’ll be interesting to see if that’s ever explored.”
While we can’t straight say that these debunk some of the fan theories, we at least know they won’t be developed in the next movie.
